The Forum Rulebook

This set of rules applies EVERYWHERE in the forums, unless directly stated otherwise in the Section Specific Rules sticky for that section.

For easier reading/skimming, the Rulebook is divided into individual sections. To jump to a specific section, click on its title in the Table of Contents.

Table of Contents

1.) Accounts2.) Avatars3.) Signatures4.) Threads5.) Posts

EDIT: I have only just noticed that the tree tag has broken again and is duplicating some listings. Sorry for the formatting confusion, I will try to fix this soon.

[tree title="The Rulebook"][branch title="1.) Accounts"][branch title="A.) One is enough"][entry]You may only have one account on these forums, with no exceptions. If you are found to have more than one account, all of them will be permanently banned.[/entry][/branch][branch title="B.) Names"][branch title="I.) Keep it clean"][entry]While you are mostly free to say whatever you want on these forums, please refrain from using offensive names, or any name that contains a curse word. Offensive names will be changed.[/entry][/branch][branch title="II.) Don't impersonate"][entry]It should go without saying, but you are not allowed to use someone else's name as your own, end of. If you are found to be impersonating, your name will be changed. If it is judged to have been done with malicious intent, you will be afixed with a user title warning others of your duplicity.[/entry][/branch][/branch][/branch][branch title="2.) Avatars"][entry]Avatars have a display size of exactly 150x150. Anything bigger or smaller will be resized to 150x150. There are a few other restrictions you must abide by, as well:[/entry][branch title="A.) Keep it clean"][entry]Like with usernames, please do not use an avatar with offensive words/imagery, curse words, gore, nudity, or depicting/implying sexual actions.[/entry][/branch][branch title="B.) Don't waste resources"][entry]If your avatar is larger than 150x150, please resize it to within 150x150 before uploading.[/entry][/branch][branch title="C.) Respect people's internet connections"][entry]Keep your avatar file sizes below 2 MB for off-site uploaded avatars. Even within these limits, if your avatar slows down load times for others, we may request that you change it.[/entry][/branch][/branch][branch title="3.) Signatures"][entry]Signatures have a maximum height limit of 200 pixels tall. Anything taller will be reduced to 200. There are a few other restrictions you must abide by, as well:[/entry][branch title="A.) Keep it clean"][entry]Like with usernames and avatars, please do not make a signature containing offensive words/imagery, curse words, gore, nudity, or that depicts/implies sexual actions.[/entry][/branch][branch title="B.) Respect others' internet connections"][entry]Keep your signature file sizes below 1 MB total if using images, GIFs, etc. Signatures may not contain videos except in URL link form. Even within these limits, if your signature slows down load times for others, we may request that you change it.[/entry][/branch][branch title="C.) No auto-play"][entry]If your signature contains a link to a music file or quote or etcetera, it must not play or activate without the user clicking directly on the link.[/entry][/branch][/branch][branch title="4.) Conduct"][entry]Vindictus is a game aimed at adults and young adults. As such, when issues arise for whatever reason, we expect you to be able to act maturely. Keep a cool head, and we will do our best to assist you.[/entry][branch title="A.) Behavior"][branch title="I.) Disagreements"][entry]Disagreements may arise from time to time, debates may be had. These things are natural, and are just part of being a community. Please handle them with maturity. Insulting and flaming each other won't get us anywhere. For that matter, "Calm down bro", "Chill", and other such phrases don't contribute anything either.[br][br]If you disagree with someone's opinion in a discussion, rationally state why. If they don't agree with you, that's completely fine; respect it. The goal of a debate may be to convince the other party to change their mind, but agreeing to disagree is fine as well.[/entry][/branch][branch title="II.) Conflict resolution"][entry]If you see that someone is undeniably intentionally baiting you or others, do not take the bait. If someone is straight up insulting you or others, don't fire back at them. Acknowleding them in these ways is what they want, and encourages them to continue. If you really want to stick it to them, report their post, and then completely ignore that it exists. Continue your discussions as if they never posted. We moderators will deal with it.[/entry][/branch][/branch][/branch][branch title="5.) Threads"][branch title="A.) Quality standards"][entry]When making a thread, please be sure first that it has a purpose; something to discuss, something to commiserate over, etc. Please don't post threads about how you ran Ulchas and got no drops today. While that is always depressing, it's not exactly an interesting subject.[/entry][/branch][branch title="B.) Off-limits topics"][branch title="I.) Gold buying/Gold selling"][entry]Gold buying/selling is extremely damaging to the ingame economy, and attempting to do either on these forums will result in an immediate permanent forum ban. Please don't "joke" about it either, you will still be permanently banned.[/entry][/branch][branch title="II.) NX trading for ingame gold"][entry]While NX trading directs the cash flow to Nexon instead of the bot community, it is still disallowed by Nexon. As such, you cannot discuss it here.[/entry][/branch][branch title="III.) Certain types of future content"][entry]Discussing future content here is fine. Most of the time, even discussing content only known about via datamining will be allowed here. However, when DevCat/Nexon KR make a big piece of content and begin hyping it, or it is obviously a major enough feature that they will hype its release when they are ready to unveil it, you are not allowed to discuss it AT ALL here. It's rude to them to have them work on such big projects, get excited about them, and then the players spoil it before they can even triumphantly unveil it. For a rough idea of what you can't discuss here:[/entry][entry]1 - Any new character or second weapon[/entry][entry]2 - Major additions to the game such as the 4/28 update KR is getting.[/entry][entry]If you are unsure whether or not you can talk about something, directly ask Shippuu first.[/entry][/branch][/branch][/branch][branch title="6.) Posts"][branch title="A.) Behavior"][entry]Continued from the general conduct rules, please keep these things in mind when posting:[/entry][branch title="I.) Keep it clean"][entry]When posting a reply, please do not make posts containing offensive words/imagery, gore, nudity, or that depicts/implies sexual actions. You may swear, there are very nearly zero blocked words on this forum. However, if you are calling people "fucking jews" or similar, you are going to have a bad time. These standards apply to all text and media in your posts/quotes, with no exceptions.[/entry][/branch][branch title="II.) Quality standards"][entry]If you are replying to a thread, or a post in the thread, please make sure that your post actually has a message. Simply saying "Lol.", or replying with an image of their avatar is not contributing anything. At risk of inviting chaos, you MAY reply with posts containing only images, FOR NOW. The caveat is that if you do this, your image must clearly represent what you are meaning to say/express.[/entry][/branch][branch title="II.) Don't bait"][entry]If you are noticed to be regularly inciting disagreements by repeatedly taking unpopular/nonsensical views, and you look to be just trying to cause trouble, you will quickly garner the suspicion of our moderation team. We will not warn you that we are watching you, and if we catch you in the act again, you will be timed out from the forums and given time to rethink your actions.[/entry][/branch][/branch][/branch][/tree]